27/04/2023 - Teresa Bellón and César F Calvillo’s light-hearted feature debut is currently being shot in Miami and Madrid, and is being produced by Beatriz Bodegas
17/02/2023 - Alberto Gastesi brings melancholy, nostalgia and jazzy rhythm to a first black and white film that takes place in two periods of time and reality (or probability)
17/02/2023 - Alberto Gastesi brings melancholy, nostalgia and jazzy rhythm to a first black and white film that takes place in two periods of time and reality (or probability)
Explosion of Covid cases turns Spain into a new ‘risk zone’ in European context – Normalitas
ksuadminJuly 9, 2021
“One of the summer classics is back,” celebrates the cultural newsletter I receive in my email.
The text refers to one of Barcelona’s main music festivals, Cruïlla (“crossroads” in Catalan, a reference to the “vocation” of the event to promote “meetings”, according to the official website), which, after a year of truce, takes place between July 8 and 10, 2021.
The event, which welcomes up to 75,000 people in each edition, takes place at the same time as Spain, in the space of two weeks, once again becomes one of the countries with the highest rate of contagion in Europe, thanks to the expansion of the Delta variant, especially among young people.
Hundreds of artists denounce Spanish rapper Pablo Hasél’s imminent jailing
Spain’s Socialist Party (PSOE)-Podemos government is preparing to incarcerate rapper Pablo Hasél over tweets and a song supposedly “glorifying terrorism,” “inciting violence” and “insulting the Spanish crown and state institutions.” He would become the first musician imprisoned in Spain since the end of Francisco Franco’s fascist dictatorship in 1978. He faces up to two decades in prison.
The deadline for him to report to jail has now elapsed. Hasél, whose real name is Pablo Rivadulla Duro, has refused to turn himself in, saying that he will have to be “kidnapped” by police. He has denounced the PSOE-Podemos government’s promises to reform the penal code to halt his imprisonment as empty, instead calling on artists, workers and youth to mobilise independently. He received a widespread response among artists and workers who correctly see his jailing as a fundamental attack on democr